Unlike Galadriel in The Rings of Power, Ser Criston isn’t having fun with his pupils, but he is disrespecting them, and hilariously so. When Prince Aegon, the eldest child of Queen Alicent and King Viserys, gets a little cocky on training dummies, Criston challenges him to spar with his teacher, with a little help from his brother. As part of its tour of the way things are now, the episode pauses to show the youngest additions to the cast being coached in swordsmanship by Ser Criston Cole, Princess Rhaenyra’s former (secret) paramour, while King Viserys and other members of the court watch. In this, Galadriel, uninvited, challenges a few of them to take her on at the same time, and she takes them to school.Īiring a few days later, House of the Dragon’s “The Princess and the Queen” features a big time jump and a new status quo. Because this expedition needs volunteers, all manner of inexperienced youths are volunteering and therefore being put through their paces in swordsmanship. Like last weekend, when the latest episodes of each show both engaged in the classic trope of having an experienced sword fighter school some young whippersnappers in the best way to study the blade.Ī brief summary for those who only watch one show, or neither: In “Partings,” the fifth episode of The Rings of Power, the elven warrior Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) has finally garnered support from the uppity human island nation of Númenor to mount an expedition to the mainland of Middle-earth in an effort to thwart dark forces that may herald the return of Sauron. While it would be reductive to call HBO’s House of the Dragon and Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power the same kind of show - they extremely are not - occasionally, in ways big and small, they do some of the same things. This is easy to overlook, because anyone who has watched Gossip Girl knows it’s best to pretend Vanessa doesn’t exist.Perhaps you have noticed that two of the biggest television shows airing (or streaming) right now are both fantasy epics based on popular novels exploring the time period before a popular previous adaptation. **that and also one of Taylor’s ladyfriends in this video is Jessica Szohr, who played Vanessa on Gossip Girl. *sorry but I never have such a large audience I couldn’t resist.** Happy, free, confused, wearing cat ears at a party. Is this video intentionally hipster-y in response to that line? Probably not! Maybe? I don’t care! Look how cute they are! Look at that tower of pink drinks! Who’s paying for all this shit? Who cares!!! There is no story to this video, unusual for Taylor, at least, none beyond “these are some cute cool ladies, I’m a cute cool lady, we’re just gonna chill out max right now.” And then they do! They just hang around! And they look adorable! They’ve got a trampoline! And they feel “22” whatever that means, even though Taylor was 23 by the time this video was filmed. I mean, it all looks like total hipster nonsense, but what does that even mean, Taylor sings “it feels like a perfect night to dress up like hipsters” but that means very little to me. The video, however, is a thing of beauty, a four minute visual symphony of the platonic ideal of a day long frolick with your best friends. Sure, “too many cool kids” has become a little bit of a half sarcastic mantra for me on nights out ( “who’s Taylor Swift anyway? ew!” means another Red single with a spoken section), and, yes, I do look forward to drunkenly yelling the lyrics from atop a table when I turn twenty two myself in December, but beyond that I don’t have much to say, and anything I did pull together would probably just be poor man’s version of this anyway. ![]() I like it, like, mom singing along idly on the way to pick up her kids from school level, or as much as that college roommate you had who only ever listened to whatever ten songs were big on the radio at the given moment. ![]() I like “22” as much as anybody, I suppose.
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